No longer having the Wagner and never collecting much of Ruth I am light, but I will add a few of mine. Had to use a Rogers Peet Catalog with Ruth on the cover(only one known).

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OMG, your Ramly WaJo is off the charts!

Wow Scott. That’s an incredible grouping. Those two w600 are bucket list items!

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Some great cards on this thread.
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So much beautiful eye candy here!

Incredible that all these cards when released cost just about as little $ as candy!

What a great thread. I've gone back through it multiple times to admire such a group of cards. Thanks to all who have shared.

My contribution.

Beauties!

Thank you, Hank!

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Here's a few more from the E98 set, always thought the set would be better with a Johnson card.
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Love to know the story behind that.

Gorgeous collection!

4 of the original 5...

But the best WaJo of them all!

Here's a post for the hipster beater crowd.

Brian (Wagner repeated from other post, well, because)

Great thread. Here's a grouping of some of my favorites: (dont have a Wagner anything, so I subbed Cy Young, who should've been in in 1936 in the first place)

• Christy Mathewson Testimonial Program
• Babe Ruth Sanella Margarine and matching vintage news photo
• Walter Johnson T206 portrait
• Cy Young tobacco tin
• Ty Cobb game-used bat (1925-1928 labeling period)

My little group of the First Five seems quite modest if compared to what you guys have posted... Neat thread idea, and GREAT cards!


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First "Ruth"

Original 5 group

Late to the party
Lots of great eye candy in this thread , keeps me coming back to ogle :)
Lots of different options to show the first 5
Here they are with their early teams

1896 Paterson Silk Weavers Wagner
1907 Fisher Kline Cobb
1908 Santa Ana Johnson
1903 Falk Postcard Mathewson
1915 Red Sox RPPC Ruth

Great team cabinets/photos Craig!

I only have 4 of the 5.

+1. Wow

Mic Drop!

Little curveball, but here is a photo of 5 of the first 6 predominantly Negro Leaguers who were inducted into the HOF. They played together on the 1934 Pittsburgh Crawfords. Buck Leonard who played for the Homestead Grays was in the first 5, but Charleston was better, so I am giving him the extra credit. This photo was taken in Yankee stadium by a famous photographer from Harlem James VanDerZee.

Paige 1971
Gibson 1972
Papa Bell 1974
J Johnson 1975
Charleston 1976

Attachment 604492

+1... WOW

Here's another all red grouping:

This is the single most aesthetically pleasing group of cards I’ve ever seen. Just add a CJ Joe Jackson as honorable mention.

Craig, those team cabinets, photos, and postcards are out of this world!! Thanks for sharing!

Too bad the Big Train was not included.

Damn George! That is a very tough (and awesome) quartet

Craig - those images are spectacular. Thanks for sharing.

George, I'm lovin' your spectacular group of Orange Borders cards. If you are looking for a Big Train card that would fit in nicely with your Orange Borders cards, I suggest WaJo's 1911 Baseball Bats card:

I agree...those borders are orange enough to earn a honorary degree at the Orange Border University, Citrus Annex. And after checking out the fantastic Old Cardboard gallery of the Baseball Bats set, it looks like there are orange border Baseball Bats versions of Cobb, Mathewson and Wagner as well, but I think they are pretty darn scarce.

Great orange edged cards Val and George...you guys are Orange Crushing it!


Brian

Brian, if you aren't a professional comedian of some sort, you may have missed your calling in life! :D

Lordy Lord, to think I have been doing this all this time on the board as an unpaid volunteer. I'm outta here...!


Brian

The only baseball postcard I have seen from the set...and a type 4 photo..

And a Cobb premium-photo..